Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ezra Taft Benson

Young people especially sometimes feel that the standards of the Lord are like fences and chains, blocking them from those activities that seem most enjoyable in life.

David Feider

The overriding issue remains that our grain export activities are at a standstill.

Tamara Gaffney

The overall growth in cell phone data usage is a boon for carriers. The popularity of mobile activities such as text-messaging is a solid revenue driver, with bundled pricing for data packages averaging $20 a month or 10 cents per message on pay-as-you go plans, in addition to the costs consumers already pay for their voice minutes.

Barack Obama

In the absence of sound oversight, responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

Charles Vest

We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education.

Norman Finkelstein

There are contradictory tendencies in American society. There's a huge range of activities that one can engage in that mark it as a quite free society. It's also true to say that the powers that be have so much control over how people think that there are fewer and fewer people who make use of the rights and information available to them.

Bruce Rauner

I've been very engaged in Illinois and Chicago civic activities for a long time; mostly around building businesses and helping entrepreneurs grow companies, but also around education and education reform.

Ed Royce

The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.

Shinzo Abe

We are not in a situation where we can make a decision in advance on the timing of ending the activities of the Self-Defense Forces.

William Shatner

I've never been without a dog. I've made trips across the country with a dog.

William Whitelaw

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.

William John Wills

This country is undergoing great changes for the better.

Valerie June

I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.

Yayoi Kusama

The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.

Bryan Whitman

The overall level of (Afghan and NATO) security forces in the country is growing.

Charles Stross

The paucity of near-future U.S. scifi is about the country becoming pessimistic, not being able to see the future clearly. There's a trend in U.S. scifi towards militarism and far-future stuff.

Bart Chilton

The thing is: in order to reach an agreement, to reach that balance, sometimes it is sort of like that old Rhinestone Cowboy lyric, 'There'll be a load of compromisin' on the road to my horizon.' For those of you who were too young, or don't recall the song, made famous by country singer Glen Campbell, it is your loss.

Ben Elliot

I've always been fascinated by India and its color and vibrancy. I worked in Madhya Pradesh in the Kanha National Game reserve before university, and it is probably the most intoxicating country I have ever visited.

Warren Zevon

So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

Whitney Cummings

After school, I'd wait for someone to pick me up and no one would, so I'd be like, 'I guess I'll walk home.' I had to be a hustler, because nobody did anything for me.

Connie Mack

I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

Chris Bohjalian

I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one.

Brian De Palma

I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie.

David Cone

I guess it kind of stemmed from my father. He was a union guy working for the meat plant down in Kansas City. He was a union guy, and I guess it was just in my blood.

Vidya Balan

I remember someone telling me that when he saw the back of a woman's head, he knew that was the woman he was going marry. I laughed that away as silly talk. But I guess when a relationship has to happen, it happens seamlessly. Your partner just walks into your life.

Clint Eastwood

I guess I'm living in the present more than the past.

Feist

I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'

Buck Leonard

I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.'

Bryan Cogman

I hate when the major event of a show I watch is spoiled for me. And I'm wracked with guilt when/if I spoil something for someone else.

Bridget Kelly

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

Frank Pierson

There's no question that the '70s themselves were really wide open. There was just so much being done at that time. Every year, the major studios were commissioning things that they would never touch today or even thought of touching in the 1950s.

Nuno Bettencourt

It's just a bunch of songs. I'm not trying to cure any major disease.

Troye Sivan

I have a majority girl audience on YouTube.

Carolina Herrera

I prefer clothes that are simple, well-cut, but with one major extravagance. Something with the sleeves, with the skirt, but nothing too fussy, too flashy.

Adrian McKinty

I used to get a lift to school every day with a man who was a major in the British Army.

Lilly Singh

The majority of people call or message me because they need something or they want something. You never know what people's intentions are.

Bridget Kelly

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

Troye Sivan

I have a majority girl audience on YouTube.

Lilly Singh

The majority of people call or message me because they need something or they want something. You never know what people's intentions are.

Mike Browning

We are running train services on all lines. The vast majority of our stations are all open.

Robert A. Heinlein

Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A

Nykesha Sales

Yeah, I played the majority of the year, but that's just like training. You train all year round anyway, so it's the same thing.

Benjamin Tucker

The right of the majority is absolute.

Bertolt Brecht

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Matt Smith

The majority of romantic comedy movies have nothing to do with love, but everything to do with infatuation.

Virginia Postrel

Wars without military objectives have a tendency to go on forever.

E. Hicks

When we pulled out on Wednesday, the military had pretty much taken over the area. There were even officers from NYPD and LAPD so the security was really tightening down.

Dick Cheney

The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.

Dick Cheney

I think the decision that's been made with respect to allowing gays to serve openly in the military is a good one.

Dick Cheney

I think we may well have some kind of presence there over a period of time... The level of activity that we see today from a military standpoint, I think, will clearly decline. I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.

Dick Cheney

It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.

Dick Cheney

If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those aspirations, then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by military force.

Dick Cheney

We need from time to time to use military force or all of the resources at our command in order to defend the nation and defend our friends. Sometimes that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I think there probably are some who actually believe if we just go talk nice to these folks, everything's going to be OK. I don't think the world works that way.

Dick Cheney

I feel very strongly that the significance of 9/11 cannot be underestimated. It forces us to think in new ways about strategy, about national security, about how we structure our forces and about how we use U.S. military power.

Joseph Grundfest

The pig may have moved through the python.

Mary Tyler Moore

I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that.

Lizzo

I was raised on gospel. I remember hip-hop and rock music were secular, so basically, for my first ten years living in Detroit, I was on gospel. But when I moved to Houston, that's when I got to open up my musical horizons.

Brad D. Smith

The computer has moved to the palm of our hands now.

Dallas Willard

'Discipleship' as a term has lost its content, and this is one reason why it has been moved aside. I've tried to redeem the idea of discipleship, and I think it can be done; you have to get it out of the contemporary mode.

Alberto Giacometti

Once the object has been constructed, I have a tendency to discover in it, transformed and displaced, images, impressions, facts which have deeply moved me.

Derek Hough

I grew up really fast when I moved to England when I was 12 years old.

Rick Carlisle

We've moved on. It's unfortunate. But we're just trying to win without him.

Bruce Bell

We have not seen anything yet that indicates they've moved off their union-busting agenda.

Billy Corgan

You just reach a point sometimes with somebody where it just doesn't work.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

Hawaii is so complex; there are so many points of view, and there are so many experiences to see and to find.

Kristy Curry

We had a point to prove. We made a statement. We were tired of overtimes. We had something to say and we said it.

Jeff Gundy

When he (Alston) was not healthy, or out for a while, and we were without a true point guard, we were much more plodding. We want to be up the floor, which is what he does best.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

There has to reach a point where you've said enough.

Anthony Wollschlager

We didn't put up the points we wanted to. Obviously, there are still things we need to work on. Over the summer we're going to get this thing right.

Paul Guen

We are having discussions but we have not yet reached the point where we sign a contract.

Javier Solana

We still have points on which we are separated, but we are making progress,

Tony Catanzaro

We actually had more points then they did in the second half, but we were terrible in the first.

Daren Beaudo

When a statute is presented I'll have something to talk about.

Terry Wogan

Most television could be presented by a dachshund. Radio can't, although there are a lot of dachshunds in there.

Alessandra Ambrosio

My little girl, Anja, is really excited. We had a baby shower yesterday and she took the presents from everyone for me and was telling them, 'No, it's my baby.'

O. J. Simpson

There are no talks with competitors at the present time... but with our share price where it is, we know we are vulnerable.

Derrick Jensen

If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country.

Tom Shea

We have been very thoughtful about presenting a multipronged agenda.

Keith Warren

We are primarily here to present an alternative message. We support the troops and the mission.

Larry Spell

I really like what you're presenting to us here tonight.

John Hayes

We have always escorted our programs. We've always had security staff on our programs.

Hamid-Reza Asefi

We are not worried by the Security Council, but it is the wrong method.

Byron Katie

There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves.

Atifete Jahjaga

The security of the woman is the security of society.

Benjamin Franklin

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.

Alberto Gonzales

Security is a concern, ... It is a priority.

Arlen Specter

Effective security measures do not come cheap.

Bruce Schneier

A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography

Bruce Schneier

People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.

Jack Smith

We are going to take it to them. Zero-zero starts the game.

Milan Hejduk

We did not win a lot of games. But the tournament really starts with the quarter-finals.

Joan Van Ark

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

Adam McKay

When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.

Tim Ritchey

We will know more after he starts galloping,

Ann Strother

You look at Barbara, Will, all of us, this is when Connecticut starts to play. When the tournaments come, this is when we always play our best.

Lauren Bacall

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

Maurice Cheeks

I think it starts tomorrow. We have to start evaluating and find out where we are and see what it takes to get better.

Sven Eriksson

He showed he is important even if he starts on the bench.

Richard Leakey

I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.

Carl Sagan

It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.

Carl Sagan

She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Carl Sagan

We are one species. We are starstuff.

Carl Sagan

But our preferences do not determine what's true.

Maurissa Tancharoen

Marvel is a very vast and diverse universe.

Moby

Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity.

Alex Beuzelin

They are still vastly under-performing the U.S. economy,

Emily Carr

There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.

Donald Rumsfeld

If it were a fact, it wouldn't be called intelligence.

Chris Matthews

I can't find a reason to be for this war. I've looked, and I can't, so I'm not.

Clint Eastwood

A war is a horrible thing, but it's also a unifier of countries.

Franco Modigliani

With the danger of war, there is a danger that the economy will go down.

Brad Pitt

I've always been at war with myself, for right or wrong.

Solomon Short

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Bernard Law Montgomery

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.

Bob Newhart

I have to warn you, I'm not just some sitcom guy. I'm now an author.

Bruce Jackson

The media is not at all homogeneous in the way it tells us about war.